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FEMA records show alerts were not sent to all phones ahead of Texas flood
NBC Newsยท 2025-07-11 18:00
As the search for the missing continues in Kirk County, records reviewed by NBC 5 Investigates raise new questions about whether local officials could have used the nation's wireless emergency alert system to better warn people in the path of the flood. Along with our partners at NBC News, we scoured a FEMA archive of cell phone alerts sent through FEMA's integrated public alert and warning system or iPing Kirk County, are authorized to use to issue warnings to all cell phones in a designated area. It's the ...